Volodymyr Tykhyy

Kilometre (2024)

Roma was working in London when the Ukrainian conflict rapidly escalated with Russia's army rolling across the border of his home. He decides to return to his family, whose town soon becomes a battlefield. While they take shelter in basements, cut off from ...

Ukrainian Independence (2023)

The film's events take place on a single day: August 24, 2022, the day Ukraine celebrates the 31st anniversary of the renewal of independent statehood. The film combines places and people that best capture the country's wartime spirit. The locations are: t ...

Iron Butterflies (2023)

This lesson in political revelation focuses on the shooting down of the Malaysian passenger jet MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. A meticulous, investigative exposé that lays bare the mechanisms of Russian warfare. ...

One Day in Ukraine (2022)

This film plays out in Ukraine on a single day: March 14, 2022, the 2,944th day of the Russian-Ukrainian War. In the last few weeks, intense warfare has surreally mixed places and people and created a post-apocalyptic dimension revealing new qualities and ...

War Note (2021)

Personal videos from the phones, camcorders, cameras and GoPros of Ukrainian soldiers are woven into a surreal journey to the frontline of the war with Russia. The film shows a bizarre world whose laws are quite different from what we are used to. The beha ...

Uljanenko Uncensored (2021)

A documentary feature film about Oles Uljanenko, an author and cult figure of Ukrainian post-Soviet culture. His works were banned by Ukrainian authorities having judged them as pornographic and as ones that should be destroyed. ...

Lethal Kittens (2020)

In 2014 Russia's hybrid war against Ukraine turns hot. An engineer, actor, soccer coach and florist volunteer to fight on the front line. Unaware of the pivotal role they will play in the war, they discover the meaning of true leadership. ...

The Sky is Falling: Three Months in the Life of Ustym Holodnyuk (2017)

A film about the ideals that filled the hearts of Ustym and his peers during three months of the revolution. Ustym's character is revealed not through stories told by his family or friends or what he did, but instead through his concerns and motivations fo ...

Hunger for Truth (2017)

In an age when disinformation muddles the truth, a newly discovered voice cuts through the historical haze. She is Rhea Clyman, a young Canadian reporter who traversed the starving Soviet heartland when Stalin's man made famine was just beginning in Ukrain ...

Blindage. Mortar Shells in the Yard (2016)

A #BABYLON`13 short. ...

Blindage. Green and Hailstones (2016)

Part of the fiction mini-series "Blindage" by the creative association #BABYLON`13. The comic and dramatic series is based on the adventures of three ATO soldiers that happen to them during their endless combat duty. ...

Blindage. Brawn's Flyed (2016)

Captives (2016)

The search for a government soldier taken captive on February 20, 2014 in Kyiv takes protester Sashko to the front lines on the East of Ukraine. ...

Generation Maidan: A Year of Revolution & War (2015)

They took on a powerful autocrat and won Ukraine's Maidan Revolution by putting their lives on the line in Kyiv's main square. But that was only the first battle of the young idealists of Generation Maidan. Now they are battling corrupt oligarchs and burea ...

Didochok (2015)

An absurd story reflecting contemporary social problems in Ukraine, told in the century-old language of cinema, linking modernity and traditional Soviet socialist realism. Classical imagery imitates an old ideology contradicting the author's worldview reve ...

After Death (2014)

"He died as a martyr." January 22, a day where all changed forever. ...

Nasha Nadiya (2014)

The documentary introduces the viewer to the life story of Nadiya Savchenko, the details of her detention and trial, as well as the family of the Ukrainian pilot, her childhood and the people who supported her. ...

Automaidan (2014)

Automaidan is the seventh film of the joint project "1+1 Production" and the creative Association "Babylon 13" from the series of documentaries "Winter that changed us". ...

Fire in the House of Trade Unions (2014)

"Fire in the House of Trade Unions" is the sixth film in the series of documentaries "Winter that changed us" about the events of the revolution of dignity. The fire in the House of trade unions occurred on the night of February 18-19, 2014. Who arranged i ...

Self-Defense (2014)

The fifth film in the series of documentaries "Winter that changed us". What is self-defense, directors Konstantin Klyatskin and Maria Ponomareva undertook to explain. Participants of the protests will remember how the Maidan self-defense arose. One of the ...

Mezhyhirya. Daddy's Abode (2014)

While working on a film about Viktor Yanukovych's residence for 1+1, director Yulia Shashkova visited Mezhyhirya several times. The authors of the film draw parallels between life in luxurious Mezhyhirya and simple Yenakiyevo, where Viktor Yanukovych's par ...

#Babylon'13 (2014)

Twelve young filmmakers made this the guiding principle of the featured documentary film. They mingle amongst the demonstrators on Independence Square and in the Donetsk region, shooting a "Chronicle of Civil Protest", a kaleidoscope of voices, opinions an ...

Grushevsky Cocktails (2014)

The third film in the series of documentaries "The Winter that Changed Us". The film clearly shows the rapid pace of radicalization of society. ...

First Death (2014)

"The First Death" is the second film in the series of documentaries "Winter that changed us". This is a story about those who died for freedom and for their own state. This time, the focus is on the story of Serhiy Nigoyan, a guy who was killed in the cent ...

Heavenly Hundred (2014)

"Heavenly Hundred "is the first film in the series of documentaries" Winter That Changed Us"; it was released by the forties after those killed in clashes on Institutskaya Street. This is a story about those who died for freedom and for their own state. It ...

The Winter That Changed Us (2014)

"The Winter That Changed" is a documentary about the events that took place on Euromaidan during the Revolution of Dignity. ...

Stronger than Arms (2014)

"Stronger than Arms", is the history that heats our hearts up with the memory of events and people, who from the time of Euromaidan to the war in the East were building a new Ukraine. ...

Euromaidan. Rough Cut (2014)

Three months of revolution. From indignant protest to national unity. From pots on their heads to batons and body armor. From the euphoria of victory to the mourning of the fallen Heavenly Hundred. Revolution as an explosion of revived dignity, as the euph ...

Open Access (2013)

The Open Access documentary is an anthology film made up of five separate documentaries that take place after the Ukrainian Parliament approves a law on "Access to public information." The film captures their struggles as public activists. ...

The Green Jacket (2013)

In the suburbs of the city a 7-years old boy disappears. After months of fruitless searches the boy's older sister decides to take the deal over. She is confident that she knows who kidnapped her brother. Is this enough to justify a terrible revenge? ...

Reed (2012)

A tale of changeless and sad pictures of village's last days of life, told through prism of a real story. ...

Nuclear Waste (2012)

Sergey and Sveta live in Chornobyl. He is a truck driver at a radioactive waste plant while she works at a radioactive decontamination station. Their work and life are dictated by one unchangeable rhythm. ...

Without GMO (2012)

Young woman's husband died tragically. From possible kinds of burial she chooses cremation. The woman is late for a funeral… One of the crematorium workers has already received her husband ashes and is grinding them in a crusher. Then he carefully puts t ...

Evil (2012)

Pregnant Lesia with no perspective for the future lives in expectation of a miracle. Together with her friend Olia she works as saleswoman at the kiosk at night. During the day she sleeps, so she won't have to listen to her unemployed mother's reproaches. ...

Death Angel (2012)

Uncle Tolya's wife hung herself, and his children went abroad. He lives on his own and feels very lonely. In order to get rid of these feelings Uncle Tolya starts talking to God. He prays every day, and asks God to restore justice by making suffer not only ...

Mushrooms (2012)

Stepanivna and her friend are two old women. They earn money by selling mushrooms at the farmers market. Women know very good spots, there are always a lot of big and beautiful mushrooms. Their relative is a policeman, he fetches old ladies to the forest b ...

How the Cossacks Flew to Space (2012)

Sasha has a house in Blahodatne village and a loving textbook wife. The second baby is on the way. They are paying out the loan for a big fridge and they dream to save some money for a gas boiler. In the distant future they plan to buy a low cost car and t ...

Short Story (2012)

Vitia is a little person. In Ukraine people like him are neither socially secure, nor have even basic facilities available in the subway, building halls, elevators etc. "They don't like people like us here," is the reason why Vitia decides to emigrate. He ...

The Beard (2012)

The old man's daughter married the foreigner and moved abroad. Only his neighbor Gienyk remembers his name. Others call him "Beard". "Beard" feeds hens, smokes cheap cigarettes, goes fishing as an ordinary villager. But nobody, even Gienyk knows what's on ...

Crow (2012)

Olia and Zina are sisters. Olia has a husband and children. Zina has a parrot and a cat. Olia moved to Germany, she couldn't handle her mother who was dying of terminal illness. Zina has left her art career and dedicated herself to mother. Both of the wome ...

Hamburg (2012)

Ihor wanted to move to America for all his adult life. To Europe, at worst. But his dream was destined to come true only partially – it's his kidney that moves abroad… His own wife persuades Ihor to sell his organ to Hamburg. Operation will be held ill ...

Key (2012)

Vasyl goes to work abroad. He will bring a significant amount of money and hopes to be able to spend it to support his family. But what is his family would be like? The patient mother seems limited in time. And his girlfriend has even less hope. ...

Beautiful Woman (2012)

Plot of the film is built around a betrayal... He charmed her, She thought it must be love and responded mutually, but soon after a bitter disappointment has come: He audaciously betrayed Her, naїve and trusting. A betrayal appeared so intolerable that Sh ...

Ksenophilia (2012)

A story of pure love in dirty conditions. ...

A Date (2012)

Ania has a little son and has no husband. To take care of the child she has to work two jobs – dubbing cartoons and... providing sexual services by phone. Ania has a regular customer. He always calls in time and never misses sessions. Once the client ca ...

House at the Road (2012)

He lives alone. He has nothing but a small house at the road. An old man loves to seat at the threshold and smoke a pipe. There are no neighbors for many miles around. Guests at his house are rare occurrence. But once a big black jeep appears near his hous ...

Gaudi (2012)

Viktor, an architect student from Kyiv, loves Barcelona and the Gaudí work. He wants to get a scholarship in Barcelona, so he's waiting for a reply from Spanish university. While in Barcelona they decide whether to grant a scholarship to Ukrainian student ...

Ukraine, Goodbye! (2011)

Ukraine, goodbye! - Ukrainian film Almanac — a collection of short films about the acute social problem of Ukraine-emigration abroad. The collection includes 25 short films in Ukrainian or Russian. ...

Off I'll Go! (2011)

To support her husband, son and mother, the heroine moves abroad to work odd jobs. Whenever she returns home, she promises herself not leave anymore. But every time she doesn't keep her word. Because every family member already has a certain habit: her mot ...

Almost Love (2011)

15-year-old Ania secretly in love with her handsome neighbor. ...

Intro (2010)

This is the beginning of projectionist's day. ...

Ukrainian Literature: Guide for Assholes (2010)

It was a common habit in Soviet schools to draw the intimate organs on all portraits in textbooks. ...

Sveta (2010)

Kolia spends his time in the striptease-bar and suddenly he recognizes among the dancers his school friend. ...

Last Letter (2010)

One letter is able to turn around life of little man. ...

She Called Him an Idiot (2010)

Love knocks people off their feet. And who was behind the wheel of the car? Maybe you will meet him one day? Afterwards remain only memories and unrealistic dreams ... ...

Grandma (2010)

This is the brief story about defencelessness of the death and audacity of life. ...

Friday (2010)

Friday is the best time to have fun. ...

Nutcase (2010)

A nutty girl breaks up with her boyfriend. Will she hear the Word of God? ...

My Friend Seryoha (2010)

This the story about a true friendship, which doesn't ask for anything. ...

Assholes. Arabesques (2009)

A series of multi-genre short films dedicated to the epidemic of socio-cultural nihilism that has engulfed Ukrainian society. ...

Taste of Ice Cream (2009)

Little Seva watches his family break up, but there's nothing he can do about it. My father and mother are getting a divorce because my mother decided to go abroad. Before leaving, the father takes his son for a walk, they move along their usual route — a ...

Arividerci, Sir! (2009)

He had been dreaming about this day for a very long time. Run away! As far away as possible from this provincial country, from degraded people. Finally, the suitcases are packed, the ticket is in hand, only a few kilometers separate this park from the airp ...

Early Morning (2009)

A couple is pursued by a hooligan. What a real man should do? Based on the fragment of the novel of Yuriy Andrukhovych "Recreations". ...

MMS (2009)

A man finds himself hypnotized by a mysterious MMS. ...

Dead End (2009)

He wakes up. He is naked. He is in the train. Train is in the dead way. ...

Shit! (2009)

A story about a sad incident that have made lighter one's unbearable being. ...

Taxi? (2009)

A taxi-driver picks up three girls two of them get out after a while, and one stays… ...

Father (2009)

Everyday life of a simple plumb, stuck in the middle between the past and the future. ...

In Memory of Piter (2009)

A philosophical parable about the life of suburbs. ...

My Dear Daughter (2008)

Denis Komarov is a policeman. He is an expert in technical equipment, a top specialist. His wife Natasha is a school coach. The ordinary family with a modest income leads a settled happy life until they get terrible news. Their only lovely child, the 8 yea ...

Pugovitsa (2008)

80th years of the 20th century. The country is embraced by the "struggle" for "perestroika" and "glasnost", in Afghanistan - the height of the war, where hundreds die eighteen-year-old boys. Their peers, Denis, have little impact on the social problems of ...

Mysterious Island (2008)

A journalist from Moscow must go to mysterious island in order to find his wife who gone missing under versy suspicious and not clear circumstances. ...

Car Washers (2001)

Kyiv in the nineties, tainted by a serious economic collapse and rising crime. A group of kids boost the family budget by washing cars at a gas station whose proprietors make a living in a rather dodgy way. The story is narrated by the 13-year-old protagon ...

Songs of the Forgotten (2000)

The Seventh Route (1997)

The film takes place in Kyiv during the day. Daniel Pritulyak, serving foreigners as guide, invents a route for the Americans on the life of an obscure but talented poet Danila Pritulyak. ...

The Little Mermaid (1996)

"A lyrical story, with dark humor. It's a movie that you want to come back to all the time - a fairy tale for adults, naive art. There are postmodern moments in The Little Mermaid that resonate with Ukrainian poetic cinema; certain allusions to Parajanov a ...

Roof (1996)

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1995)

Short Film ...

Sokirra (1995)

An ironic film adaptation-joke on the theme of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in five parts: Hard Bundes Porno, Prosto Sexo, SokіrroMortale, Dolce Sentіmento, Tuttі Fruttі. ...

Underground (1992)

Uljanenko Uncensored (2021)

A documentary feature film about Oles Uljanenko, an author and cult figure of Ukrainian post-Soviet culture. His works were banned by Ukrainian authorities having judged them as pornographic and as ones that should be destroyed. ...